How would your church respond to disaster?
from AAC:
It’s been heartening to see the Body of Christ in action after Hurricane Harvey. Several churches, including the Anglican Church in North America’s (ACNA) Church of the Apostles in Houston, became makeshift shelters.
There are denominational efforts like the ACNA’s Anglican Relief and Development, the North American Mission Board (Southern Baptist), Missouri Synod Lutherans and many others. And, of course, there are the endless stories of individual good Samaritans being the hands and feet of Jesus.
Father Jerry Kramer wrote a great article this week on what it was like to minister in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago. Father Kramer’s parish and community was ravaged by the storm, nevertheless the church experienced resurrection. Ministering in the aftermath of devastation took the 163-year-old parish from missional irrelevance to integral part of the community. In the article, Father Kramer says: “The transformation was so profound, and so improbable that the Harvard Kennedy School of Government studied the parish for five years. The academic question being: How did one of the poorest communities in New Orleans (median household income $10,000) experience a 93% return of its residents?”
Before you read the article and see what the Harvard study found, I must ask you a question:
If a hurricane or other disaster hit your town, what would your local church do? What would YOU do?
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